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Triumvirate around Prince Sven I: "The soul suffers"
Photo: Costa Belibasakis / Festival Committee Cologne Carnival
The "gems" have been polished up for prince, peasant and maiden.
45 women in red uniforms sit in front of their computers.
The club from Cologne-Raderberg celebrates carnival.
The appearance of the triumvirate should be the highlight of this year's session.
The glasses are filled with champagne or red wine.
Ready to go.
But there is no applause or flourish.
The triumvirate only comes from a conference room via video stream.
Office furniture, slats in front of the windows, bare ceilings.
In full regalia, the madmen sit at empty tables and look as jerky as three board members of a medium-sized screw manufacturer.
Q&A instead of music and dance.
For about 20 minutes, the men talk about carnival in Corona times.
That they park their stage truck in front of old people's homes in order to offer the residents a little cheerfulness through the balconies and windows.
Those were “touching moments,” says Sven Oleff, a plumbing and heating master who fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming a prince.
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